A house was de­stroyed by fire at Dun­don­ald Hill, Long Cir­cu­lar, St James, ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the fire was re­port­ed around 1.20 am af­ter a neigh­bour, Ayan­na In­niss, saw smoke com­ing from the res­i­dence and con­tact­ed the Fire Ser­vice.

When po­lice ar­rived, the con­crete struc­ture with a wood­en roof was ful­ly en­gulfed in flames.

The home was re­port­ed­ly oc­cu­pied by three adults: Dex­ter Lawrence, 64-year-old Al­li­son Daniel and 25-year-old Mar­ley Daniel.

Fire of­fi­cers ini­tial­ly en­coun­tered dif­fi­cul­ties reach­ing the prop­er­ty be­cause ve­hi­cles were parked along the road­way. Res­i­dents al­so re­port­ed that there was no pipe-borne wa­ter sup­ply in the area.

Fire­fight­ers even­tu­al­ly used wa­ter from a neigh­bour’s tank to ex­tin­guish the blaze.

Po­lice lat­er re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that Daniel had been seen walk­ing in St James. Her son was sub­se­quent­ly told by neigh­bours that she was safe and had spent the night in the area.

Fire of­fi­cers searched the de­bris and con­firmed that no hu­man re­mains were found.

Daniel lat­er con­tact­ed po­lice and con­firmed that she was in good health and stay­ing with her el­der son.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Man forced in­to car af­ter as­sault

A 27-year-old man was ab­duct­ed af­ter be­ing struck and as­sault­ed in Bam­boo Set­tle­ment, Bam­boo #3, Val­sayn, on Mon­day night.

Po­lice said Mark Singh was walk­ing south along Bam­boo Boule­vard near Ram­nar­ine Trace around 8.12 pm when a sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da with par­tial reg­is­tra­tion 713 came in­to con­tact with him, caus­ing him to fall.

A masked man then ex­it­ed the rear left pas­sen­ger side of the ve­hi­cle and chased Singh north along the road­way.

Po­lice said Singh fell again, af­ter which the man al­leged­ly beat him about his body and forced him in­to the Ti­i­da.

The ve­hi­cle then drove north with Singh in­side.

Po­lice said that around 12.10 am yes­ter­day, Singh was walk­ing along the West­ern Main Road near the Care­nage Po­lice Sta­tion when he saw a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle and re­port­ed the in­ci­dent.

He was tak­en to the St James Med­ical In­fir­mary, where he re­ceived med­ical at­ten­tion. He was list­ed in sta­ble con­di­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Four home in­va­sions re­port­ed across Trinidad

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing four sep­a­rate home in­va­sions re­port­ed in Freeport, Tal­paro, Princes Town and St Mary’s be­tween Sat­ur­day and Mon­day.

In Freeport, 68-year-old Dhan­patie Singh was in­side her home at Cal­cut­ta #4 around 2.15 pm on Mon­day when three men, all dressed in dark cloth­ing, en­tered and an­nounced a rob­bery.

One of the men was armed with a cut­lass.

The men es­caped with $1,000 in cash and a quan­ti­ty of gold jew­ellery.

Po­lice said ex­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tions by the Freeport CID led to the ar­rest of a man iden­ti­fied as Prince Leg­ere, 23, of Cal­cut­ta Set­tle­ment, Freeport.

In Tal­paro, 89-year-old Gabriel Ed­wards was at his home at Joseph Lewis Trace around 10 am on Mon­day when four masked men en­tered through a west­ern-side door.

Po­lice said Ed­wards was beat­en and robbed of a Rem­ing­ton 12-gauge shot­gun, 24 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, $5,000 in cash and two cell­phones.

The men es­caped by run­ning west along the road.

In Princes Town, a 33-year-old man was re­port­ed­ly tied up in­side his home af­ter be­ing con­front­ed by an in­trud­er ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said Adri­an John se­cured his home at St Julien Vil­lage around 10 pm on Sat­ur­day and went to bed. Around 5 am on Sun­day, he was ac­cost­ed in his bed­room by a man wear­ing a white vest and dark pants.

The man al­leged­ly tied John’s hands and feet be­fore es­cap­ing.

John lat­er freed him­self and dis­cov­ered that $1,500 in cash was miss­ing from the house.

And in St Mary’s, two res­i­dents were con­front­ed in­side their home by two men who were al­leged­ly look­ing for gro­cery items they be­lieved had been stolen by one of the res­i­dents’ sons.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent oc­curred around 530 pm on Sun­day at Gomez Trace, St Mary’s Vil­lage, Moru­ga Road.

One sus­pect was armed with an iron rod, while the oth­er had a glass bot­tle. The men re­port­ed­ly fol­lowed one of the vic­tims through the house as she showed them that the items were not there.

They then es­caped through the front door and en­tered a ve­hi­cle parked near­by.

Po­lice said one sus­pect fit­ting the de­scrip­tion of the man armed with the iron rod was sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to all four in­ci­dents are con­tin­u­ing.